Professors Cyrus Schayegh and Christiana Parreira will discuss how Israeli-Lebanese relations have evolved up to the ongoing escalation of armed conflict. 

The event will be moderated by Dr. Annyssa Bellal, Executive Director of the Geneva Peacebuilding Platform.

The discussion will address the long arc of Israeli/Zionist-Lebanese interactions, including the 1948 rupture of relations, the 1982 Israeli invasion, the subsequent occupation of South Lebanon, and the 2006 war between Israel and Hezbollah. 

Against this background, the discussion will address the current turning point as a critical juncture in regional politics.

Cyrus Schayegh is Professor and Head of the International History and Politics Department. He joined the Geneva Graduate Institute in 2017. Before, he was Associate Professor at Princeton University and, in 2005-2008, Assistant Professor at the American University of Beirut. His most recent works are the monograph The Middle East and the Making of the Modern World (Harvard UP, 2017), the edited volume Globalizing the U.S. Presidency: Postcolonial Views of John F. Kennedy (Bloomsbury, 2020), and a primary source collection.

Christiana Parreira is Assistant Professor of International Relations and Political Science. She joined the Geneva Graduate Institute in 2022. Before, she served as a Postdoctoral Associate in the Department of Near Eastern Studies at Princeton University and a Pre-Doctoral Associate at the Harvard Kennedy School's Middle East Initiative. Her research, published in the Journal of Politics, Journal of Conflict Resolution, and Journal of Peace Research, focuses on the role of local political institutions and actors in the Middle East. Her forthcoming book project examines the evolution of local governance in Lebanon. 

Dr Annyssa Bellal is Executive Director at the Geneva Peacebuilding Platform. She is an international lawyer with more than 18 years of experience in the area of conflict studies, both at the academic and policy levels, with a particular expertise on the issue of armed non-state actors. Dr Bellal was formerly a Strategic Adviser on International Humanitarian Law and Senior Research Fellow at the Geneva Academy of International Humanitarian law and Human Rights.